Corinth Object: C 1938 403a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 403a
Title:   PROTOMAIOLICA BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   403
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1938-403B
Description:   Bowl with low vertical ring foot, flattened resting surface, rounded undersurface, irregularly trimmed. Hemispherical body, broad oblique rim W00.042, round lip.
Decoration:   White slip inside and over upper half of exterior. On interior, floor to base of rim, pair of round-edged leaves, filled with brown cross-hathcing, outlined with yellow dots on curving brown stem; single line at base of rim. On rim, blue and white guilloche with one black line below, 2 above. Tin glaze over slip.
Material:   Moderately coarse pale yellow clay with frequent fine black inclusions, porous.
Munsell Color:   2.5Y 8/3
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile; 3/4 foot, 1/4 body, 1/3 rim. RIP with B.
Manufacture:   C74
Dimensions Actual:   H00.068 D00.081 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.25 (rim)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Second half 13th c., coin Wm. Villehardouin
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB181 P488
Provenance:   South Italy
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0871
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: St. John's
Basket: NB181 P488